 YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels...  The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins - Page 1531836Full view - About this book
 | Anna Callender Brackett - American poetry - 1881 - 348 pages
...Greece : Return in all thy simple state ! Confirm the tales her sons relate ! William Collins. LYCIDAS. Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas, is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer ! Who would not sing... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 590 pages
...seas, 1637, and by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then hi their height.] YKT once more, O ye laurels ! and once more Ye myrtles...dear, Compels me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637; and, by occasion, foretells the ruin of our corrupted...occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing... | |
 | George Steiner - History - 1971 - 156 pages
...Though complex in its causes and consequences, this dimming of recognitions is easy to demonstrate: Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing... | |
 | George Steiner - Philology - 1984 - 448 pages
...Though complex in its causes and consequences, this dimming of recognitions is easy to demonstrate: Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing... | |
 | James B. Adamson - Religion - 1989 - 582 pages
...might expect, more adjectives in James than in the two Pauline letters together. TABLES MILTON, LYCIDAS Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, ye myrtles...occasion dear compels me to disturb your season due. For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637; and, by occasion, foretells the ruin of our corrupted...pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced ringers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear... | |
 | Reynolds Price - Family & Relationships - 1995 - 372 pages
...1637." Then he braced himself for the steeplechase run-through that had never failed to move him deeply. "Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. " From there on, along the crowded unpredictable way to its visionary end — with Lycidas rescued... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...ancient symbols of triumphant verse and immortality — must again have their unripe berries disturbed: Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drown'd in his Passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637. And by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted...come to pluck your Berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion... | |
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